161 that doubtless but for the prompt arrival of a few of the Citizens of the town, would have entirely destroyed the contents of the waggons.- This news so startling, forces the poor farmer to seek a more secure place than his lonely farm, and consequently all are now in safety in the town, and before a feeling of security will revive, indispensible to their return to their field the season in this county will have passed, before their crops are half planted, and yet we will be called upon, to pay taxes to our State next fall, and worse yet to pay to the United States, a heavy duty for the corn which we shall have to introduce from Mexico, for the where with to feed our children, all this because our Govern- ment, has failed to protect us so that we may sow and reap from our own fields- Your Committee further report, that this is no new theme, time and again have they exhausted their arguments, and intercessions fo1· more efficient protection, and not only, have they failed, but their motives have been impugned, by some who live in more favored spots, we have been charged with rais- ing these alarms, for the purpose of having Rangers called out, and getting profitable contracts &c &c-and why waste time to deny these charges, we say emphatically that we do not want the State to call out her Rangers.- Would that those who malign us, could hear as we do almost weekly, the solemn toll of our church bell, telling us that another, and another of our Citizens have been murdered, or could listen as we do to the shreiks of the wife and children over the form of the husband, and Father, brought in a corpse (with the arrows still reeking in his wounds.) to the home which he left perhaps but in the morning, to cut hay or do some thing else for the support of his family.- Cold, callous, indeed! must be the heart that would not at least give us its sympathy! Your Committee are satisfied that the recent depredations around this town have been committed by Lipan Indians, who are encamped on the head waters of the Nueces, having an agent living among them; and we understand are even now being fed from the U. S. Post of Fort Inge on the Leona.- We further state in support of this assertion, that Trinidad Ramos to us well known, will swear before a proper tribunal, that the Indians, who lately attacked the Stock Rancho of H. P. Bee, and drove off some 80 horses from Roques Camp of Mustanges close by, were recognised by him to be Lipans, whom he had seen at Fort Inge: and we further state on the unquetionable authority of Lieut. Witter 5th Inf. U. S. A. that when he arrived at Fort Inge, in pursuit of these same Indians, that he there met "Chepita" the
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